How to Put on a Cup for Football

Related Articles

A protective cup is an essential piece of equipment for any football player. It certainly is at the Pop Warner youth level and the high school level. The cup slips into a sleeve in the jock strap and protects the male reproductive organs from taking unnecessary punishment during a football game.

Strip your clothes off so that you are down to your underwear. Slip on an athletic supporter (often referred to as a jock strap) and pull it tight.

Place the cup in the opening at the top of the supporter. The cup is a hard shell of plastic. The cup needs to be big enough to hold your penis and testicles. If it is not big enough, you can damage your reproductive organs.

Snap closed the opening at the top of the athletic supporter. By securing the cup, it will not slip out of place and will be able to provide the protection it was designed to provide. Adjust the supporter and cup so they are as comfortable as possible. Many football players find the cup to to be uncomfortable. Still, it is recommended, often required, that a cup be worn during a game and all contact drills.

Put on the rest of your padding and uniform. Football players wear shoulder pads, thigh pads and hip pads, in addition to a protective cup. Many also wear knee pads, elbow pads and padding for the rib cage. As you put on each level of protection and then your uniform, adjust the protective cup so it remains in an effective position to protect you.

Run through a practice session to get used to the protective cup. It may never be a comfortable piece of equipment, but eventually most players get used to wearing it.

Things Needed

Protective cup

Athletic supporter

Tips

Clean your jock and protective cup after each use.

References

About the Author

Steve Silverman is an award-winning writer, covering sports since 1980. Silverman authored The Minnesota Vikings: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and Who's Better, Who's Best in Football -- The Top 60 Players of All-Time, among others, and placed in the Pro Football Writers of America awards three times. Silverman holds a Master of Science in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism.

bibliography-iconicon for annotation tool Cite this Article

Choose Citation Style

Silverman, Steve. "How to Put on a Cup for Football." Healthfully, http://healthfully.com/put-cup-football-5057264.html. Accessed 17 February 2018.

Silverman, Steve. (n.d.). How to Put on a Cup for Football. Healthfully. Retrieved from http://healthfully.com/put-cup-football-5057264.html

Silverman, Steve. "How to Put on a Cup for Football" accessed February 17, 2018. http://healthfully.com/put-cup-football-5057264.html

Note: Depending on which text editor you're pasting into, you might have to add the italics to the site name.